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of the stigma. The crossveins (in both species) run parallel to 

 each other; their distance is a trifle longer than the great 

 crossvein. The second posterior cell is longer than the anal : 

 the latter is drawn out in a point. The hairs on the costa and 

 on the first vein are very minute ; those on the beginning of 

 the third vein require a very strong lens. 



The Psila-like appearance, the spinose femora and the larger 

 size of the middle pair of legs, render this genus easily reco- 

 gnizable. Meracantha Macq. (D. E. Suppl. IV, 285 , Tab. 26 , 

 f. 9) also has spinose femora, but the hind pair are incrassate, 

 the abdomen davate, the antennae elongate etc. 



Sophira distorta Walk. Trans. Ent. Soc. IV, N. S. pt. VI, 

 230! (Celebes). 



Syn. Enicoptera pictipennis Walk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc. IV, 155 and V, 262! 



(Celebes). 



The descriptions are unrecognizable, but I have seen the ty- 

 pes. I do not give any further details about the genus Sophira, 

 because I have only a single female before me ; besides, I am 

 in doubt whether this species is congeneric with Sophira ve- 

 nusta Wk., which I do not know. 



Poiyara insolita Walk. J. Pr. Lin. Soc. Ill, 122 ! (Aru Isl."^^) 

 male, and VII, 221 (Mysol) female. 



Three specimens (one of them a male ; the abdomen of the 

 two others is broken). 



Ramoi and Dorei Hum, N. Guinea, Febr. 1875 (Beccari). 



These flies have very much the appearance of Tetanocerae ; 

 they can easily be recognized by the abnormal crossveins, which 

 they possess ; one in the marginal cell , a little before the end 

 of the first vein ; and two in the submarginai cell , dividing it 

 in three section. The female, has an ovipositor as long as the 

 rest of the body. 



Anguitula cyanea Guérin (Nerius) Voy. de la Coquifle, Zool. 

 301, Tab. 21, f. 11 (Dorei, N. Guin.). 



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